Panasonic Corporation

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Makoto Ochi

Shinji Inoue

Takuji Maeda

Hirokazu So

Masato Suto

Kazuya Fujimura

Hiromasa Sugii

Masao Takee

Kazuhiro Kitaoka

Masahiro Nakanishi

Yoshiteru Nishikawa

Yasuyuki Harada

Hiroki Etoh

Toshihiro Sakatani

Yukiko Inoue

Masahiro Nakamura

Makoto Fujiwara

Yuishi Torisaki

Kozo Tao

Yusuke Nemoto

Yoshinobu Katayama

Tomoya Satou

Kentarou Shiomi

Manabu Inoue

Yoshiho Gotoh

Takumi Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Sakurai

Teruhiko Imoto

Motoo Tadokoro

Tetsushi Kasahara

Yohsuke Mitani

Mitsunori Tokuda

Kazuaki Tamura

Tomoaki Izumi

Kiminori Matsuno

Kazuki Morita

Tetsuyuki Murata

Kazuki Shimozono

Kazunobu Yokotani

Atsutoshi Ako

Shuhei Yoshida

Shigekazu Kogita

Yasuhiko Ikeda

Kousuke Satoguchi

Yoshihiro Masuda

Fumio Yasutomi

Shoichi Tsujita

Chihiro Fujisawa

Takashi Yamaguchi

Ryuuji Kawase

Jun Ohara

Koichi Horiuchi

Kazuya Shimizu

Atsutoshi Akou

Ryu Yamashita

Yuuji Shinohara

Noritake Okada

Kazuya Shimzu

Shuuhei Yoshida

Atsuya Furuichi

Kohei Karasumi

Yukiko Okamoto

Yasushiro Kudo

Kei Ikoma

Yasumasa Kondou

Kiyoshi Morita

In an image forming apparatus, a control device functions as a controller and a user presence/absence determiner. When accepting an instruction to execute a print job through a touch panel, the controller controls operations of a sheet feed device, a conveyance device, and an image forming device to allow a document image represented by image data generated by a document reading device to be formed on a sheet to make a printed matter and allow the printed matter to be discharged to a sheet output tray. When the user presence/absence determiner determines that a user is present, the controller controls, before printing for at least a last sheet in the print job, the operations of the sheet feed device and the conveyance device to allow a sheet to be discharged to the sheet output tray without allowing the image forming device to form the document image on the sheet.

Image forming apparatus capable of controlling sheet discharge according to presence or absence of user

An image forming apparatus includes a speech input device, a display device, an image forming device, and a control device. The display device displays an image expressed in a preset language for display. The control device functions as a controller that operates in either one of a normal operating mode and an emergency operating mode and recognizes, based on a speech input to the speech input device, a language of the input speech. During operation in the normal operating mode, the controller recognizes a language of the speech input to the speech input device and sets the recognized language as the language for display. During operation in the emergency operating mode, the controller recognizes a language of the speech input to the speech input device and allows the image forming device to form an image representing evacuation information expressed in the recognized language.

Image forming apparatus for forming image representing evacuation information expressed in language recognized by speech recognition function

An electronic device shifts between a locked state in which use of a function is restricted and an unlocked state in which the function is usable. The electronic device includes a touch panel and a controller. The touch panel displays a pattern entry screen including first grid points and a second grid point having the same shape and color as the first grid points. The controller acquires a movement path of a detection target on the pattern entry screen and sequentially specifies first grid points passed by the movement path among the first grid points. The controller acquires entry pattern information based on the specified first grid points. The controller determines whether or not the entry pattern information matches registered pattern information. When the controller determines that the entry pattern information matches the registered pattern information, the electronic device shifts from the locked state to the unlocked state.

Electronic device and authentication method

A display input device displays a first object in which a plurality of buttons each marked therein with no character are arranged and also displays a second object in which a plurality of frames each marked therein with a character are arranged in an array pattern identical to that of the plurality of buttons. The display input device recognizes, as a subject arrayed position, a position in the first object at which one of the plurality of buttons is arrayed, with respect to which an input operation has been performed, and determines that an instruction has been received to input a character marked in one of the plurality of frames that is arrayed at a position in the second object identical to the subject arrayed position.

Display input device, image forming apparatus provided with the same, and method for controlling display input device

A display input device including: a display panel provided for the display panel; and a control unit that recognizes user operation content, recognizes a drag operation whereby a predetermined start area in the display panel is touched and, while said touch is continued, the touch position is slid towards a predetermined end area, recognizes arrival at the touch position end area as a power supply OFF command that instructs a power supply to turn OFF, and causes processing for turning off the power supply when a power supply OFF command is recognized.

Display input device, image formation device comprising same, and control method for display input device

A display input device includes a display portion, a touch panel portion and a control portion, and when in a login state, a predetermined processing start time is reached, reduction processing is performed in which in a screen being presently displaced, a display size of a logout key is maintained and in which a display size of a reduction target element that is a screen element other than the logout key is reduced.

Display input device for successively reducing the size of a screen element during a selected processing of an image forming apparatus

A hybrid power source connects a secondary battery and an EDLC. A first switch connects the hybrid power source and a lead acid battery in parallel. A power source controlling portion controls power supply to the hybrid power source and the lead acid battery. The hybrid power source is connected to a starter for starting an engine for a vehicle, and also connected to an electric device except for the starter through the first switch, and the lead acid battery is connected to the electric device, and also connected to the starter through the first switch.

Power source system for a vehicle

A first power storage section and a second power storage section are connected in parallel. The first power storage section includes a first non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The second power storage section includes parallel-connected second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. Each of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries has a higher energy density than that of the first non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. In a case where the second power storage section is discharged at a current value corresponding to a first assumed maximum discharge current value, the parallel-connected number of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is set such that a discharge rate of each of the second non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries becomes the preset reference discharge rate or less.

Power supply system

In a battery system for a vehicle, a lead battery is connected in parallel to a sub-battery, and a charging resistance rof the sub-batteryis lower than a charging resistance rof the lead battery.

Vehicular battery system and vehicle equipped with same

[Problem] To suppress increases in the resistance of nickel positive electrodes and assure sufficient battery capacity even after repeated pulse charging and discharging cycles with a large current. [Solution] This alkaline storage battery () contains aluminum (Al) in a hydrogen storage alloy negative electrode () and also includes Al in a nickel positive electrode (). In a state where a prescribed charging and discharging cycle has completed, the Al content in the nickel positive electrode () is 0.25% by mass or greater of that in the positive electrode active material, and in powder x-ray diffraction of the positive electrode active material using Cu&#x2014;K&#x3b1;, the half-width of the (101) plane peak for Ni(OH)is controlled so as to be 0.5 (&#xb0;/2&#x3b8;) or greater.

Alkaline storage battery

To provide a hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline storage battery that improves output power by pulverization of the alloy in the initial stage of partial charge and discharge cycles and that maintains its surface condition to improve the amount of lifetime work (Wh), and an alkaline storage battery and battery system. A hydrogen storage alloy for an alkaline storage battery includes a composition expressed by LaReMgNiAlT(Re: rare earth element(s) including Y; T: Co, Mn, Zn; 0.17&#x2266;x&#x2266;0.64, 3.5&#x2266;n&#x2266;3.8, 0.06&#x2266;m&#x2266;0.22, v&#x2267;0), and a main phase of an ABtype crystal structure. A ratio of X/Y of the concentration ratio X of Al to Ni in a surface layer and the concentration ratio Y of Al to Ni in a bulk layer is 0.36&#x2266;X/Y&#x2266;0.85. An alkaline storage battery includes the hydrogen storage alloy in its negative electrode. An alkaline storage battery system performs partial charge and discharge control.

Hydrogen storage alloy for alkaline storage battery, and alkaline storage battery and alkaline storage battery system each including negative electrode having the alloy

Provided is a method that, in the case of managing areas of a non-volatile memory of an information recording module by a file system, increases the speed of processing for writing file data and file system management information, and furthermore prevents a decrease in the rewriting lifetime of the non-volatile memory. The information recording module () is provided with a page cache control unit () that stores page cache information () in the non-volatile memory () of the information recording module () and performs control such that a specific physical block is used as a cache when writing small-sized data. Also, an access module () is provided with a page cache information setting unit () that sets information necessary for page cache control in the information recording module (). The combination of the access module () and the information recording module () prevents the execution of needless saving process with use of page caching when writing small-sized data, thereby increasing the speed of writing processing.

Access device, information recording device, controller, and information recording system

An access deviceinternally includes a logical-physical empty capacity management partfor obtaining information of a remaining capacity on a write once memory from a write once recording deviceA. In addition, the write once recording deviceA internally includes a physical empty capacity management partfor managing a remaining capacity on the write once memory and notifying the access device of the capacity. Prior to recording of file data, the access devicecan know an accurate remaining capacity of the write once recording device by: obtaining a remaining capacity of the write once memory from the write once recording deviceA; and comparing the capacity with a remaining capacity on an FAT to decide an actually-recordable remaining capacity for file data.

Write once recording device

In a memory controller according to the present invention, an external I/F unit receives ID information associated with data from the outside of a non-volatile memory, and a recording controller manages a recording position of the data in the non-volatile memory based on the ID information, so that an amount of time necessary for the retrieval of rights information based on the ID information is reduced.

Memory controller, nonvolatile storage system, and data management method

A recording medium () for storing content that can be read and written by a host device stores a content key (a key that is used for encrypting content) () encrypted in a first format, and a content key () that is encrypted in a second format for content that is the same as the content related to the content key () encrypted in the first format. The first format is, for example, a format used for distributed content, and the second format is a format used with local content.

Recording medium, and device and method for recording information on recording medium

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